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Souls having touched

While in Nashville working on the new Purple album, Ian Gillan spoke to Guitar International. The interview mostly evolved around the WhoCares project, with briefly touching Jon Lord’s memory at the end: Robert: With so many years of working with tremendous bands and creating great material was it difficult to pick the songs that would […]

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Gillan in Psychedelic Baby

It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine has an interview they conducted recently with Ian Gillan on the occasion of promoting his and Tony Iommi’s charity release of WhoCares: The list of musicians, that also appear on this project is amazing! How was it to work with them and how did you and Tony got along musically? I […]

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WhoCares album samples

WhoCares charity compilation release date has been pushed back to July 13. Meanwhile, their record label has posted teaser samples.

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WhoCares to release an album

Ian Gillan and Toni Iommi’s charity project WhoCares will release a compilation (with a few rarities thrown in) on June 22 via earMusic. Geoff Barton of Classic Rock Magazine spoke to Big Ian about the project: Tell us about some of the stuff on the WhoCares album, beginning with the Repo Depo track. Repo Depo […]

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Gillan on Artisan News Service, part 2

Second part of Ian Gillan’s interview to the Artisan news Service. Watch it inside.

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Opening the front door

Yiannis Dolas of RockPages.gr did a lengthy interview with Ian Gillan regarding the WhoCares project: Rockpages.gr: You performed in front of the crowd in Armenia, both just after the earthquake in 1990, as well as now, 20 years later. What was the reaction you got, now, and twenty years ago? Ian Gillan: Well, times are […]

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WhoCares video released

The title pretty much says it all. Here it is.

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WhoCares update

WhoCares charity single will get a North American release on June 27th via Eagle Rock. This is the release date for a physical CD. European CD release date is now set for May 24th (although Amazon.co.uk lists it as May 9th). Download release for both markets is still set for May 6th. Confused? Me too. […]

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Gillan about WhoCares

In anticipation of the May 6 release of the WhoCares single, Ian Gillan spoke to Armenia’s Mediamax: – You wrote the song “Out of My Mind” right after visiting Armenia in October 2009. Can you please tell – how it happen? Who was “responsible” for what when writing this song? – Well, normally…people like us […]

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WhoCares release details

Gillan and Iommi’s charity project WhoCares will release it’s debut single on May 6 via Edel/eARmusic. The single will contain two brand new songs Out Of My Mind and Holy Water. Jon Lord, Nicko McBrain, Jason Newsted and Linde Lindström (HIM) also contributed to the project. The single will be available in following formats: CD […]

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